Sermon preview, week of October 7, 2025
The Way, The Truth, & the Life
This Sunday’s order
- Sunday
- Reading
- John 14:1-14
- Series
- I AM: Jesus in the Gospel of John
- Preaching
- Jonathan Balmer
This is a sermon preview for a sermon in the "I AM: Jesus in the Gospel of John" series. The live stream recordings can be viewed online.
The readingJohn 14:1-14
"Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
-from John 14:1-14
Read John 14:1-14
1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going. ” 5“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” 6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.” 8Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. 11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves. 12Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain
When we say that Jesus is The Way, The Truth, And the Life (as we should, Jesus says those words about himself!), we often prioritize the Truth and Life. Those are surely important, but we should not neglect the way.
As Eugene Peterson in The Jesus Way:
We cannot skip the way of Jesus in our hurry to get the truth of Jesus as he is worshiped and proclaimed. The way of Jesus is the way that we practice and come to understand the truth of Jesus, living Jesus in our homes and workplaces, with our friends and family.
Jesus doesn't provide a way, he is the way. And so to come to understand the Jesus Way is an indispensable step in allowing us to have "have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10b). The Jesus way is the way we abide, and Jesus's prayer is that his disciples abide in him (John 17).
As we gather for worship this week, we will consider anew the Jesus way, so we can grasp again, or for the first time, what it means that Jesus is The Way, The Truth & The Life.
